12 August 2013 10:05 AM

The September issues, part three

The cover lines – ‘7 buys of the season’, ‘Eat like a Scandinavian’ – are not
bad.

The fashion: It is all relatively affordable: Margaret
Howell, DKNY, Paul Smith, Moschino Cheap and Chic, and it is edgy, not old and
boring.

The features: Really, really original, with great writing. A
frank piece on being terrible with money, by Kate Spicer. A fantastic piece by
Sarah Maber about juggling children with work: ‘A bad experience with our first
nanny left our eldest jittery and anxious.’ And ‘I often feel I have gone to
work for a rest,’ says another mother.

Not a great deal of beauty advice, but a
section called ‘Self’, about being happier.

Celebrity mutterings: We are promised ‘at home with Helena’,
so I’d have liked pictures of her house, but instead it’s standard glam photos.

Not as sycophantic a piece as you get elsewhere, viz: ‘a few lines and spots of
pigmentation that show she is embracing her forties’. Helena’s advice for
ageing gracefully? ‘Get dimmers on your lights.’

Useless piece of advice: ‘Try flipping your hair over to one
side and tucking the other side behind your ear.’

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